Patents by Inventor Virgil Niles Kynett

Virgil Niles Kynett has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for calibrating analog sensor measurement
    Patent number: 6446019
    Abstract: A method for calibrating analog sensor measurements within a computer system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating an analog sensor measurement result, reading at least two values that define a curve from a memory device, and calculating a calibrated result using the analog sensor measurement result and the values that define the curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Virgil Niles Kynett, Steven E. Wells
  • Method and apparatus for updating flash memory resident firmware through a standard disk drive interface
    Patent number: 6009497
    Abstract: A method for updating the content of EEPROM memory used for controlling processes run on a microprocessor used to control the operations of a long term memory array which includes moving an update process stored in the EEPROM memory to a random access memory associated with the microprocessor; and then using the update process stored in random access memory for erasing the contents of the EEPROM memory, and furnishing data to the microprocessor on a sector by sector basis from a host computer through an interface used by the microprocessor to provide data to the long term memory array. The data furnished by the host is written sector by sector to the EEPROM memory until the EEPROM memory has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Steven E. Wells, Virgil Niles Kynett, Terry L. Kendall, Richard Garner, Dave M. Brown
  • Method and apparatus for updating flash memory resident firmware through a standard disk drive interface
    Patent number: 5835933
    Abstract: A method for updating the content of EEPROM memory used for controlling processes run on a microprocessor used to control the operations of a long term memory array which includes moving an update process stored in the EEPROM memory to a random access memory associated with the microprocessor; and then using the update process stored in random access memory for erasing the contents of the EEPROM memory, and furnishing data to the microprocessor on a sector by sector basis from a host computer through an interface used by the microprocessor to provide data to the long term memory array. The data furnished by the host is written sector by sector to the EEPROM memory until the EEPROM memory has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Steven E. Wells, Virgil Niles Kynett, Terry L. Kendall, Richard Garner, Dave M. Brown
  • Power management system for components used in battery powered applications
    Patent number: 5696977
    Abstract: A control circuit for a computer component circuit which includes oscillator apparatus for providing square wave pulses at a prescribed frequency, gating apparatus for providing the square wave pulses at an output terminal for use as a clock for the component circuit, timing apparatus for sensing a period during which the component circuit has not performed an operation, and apparatus for disabling the gating apparatus for providing the square wave pulses at an output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Steven E. Wells, Virgil Niles Kynett, Terry L. Kendall, Richard Garner